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Find help cleaning up your nonprofit or public library's accounting

Elliot Harmon and Ariel Gilbert-Knight - April 11, 2012
Intuit's QuickBooks software is an industry standard for accounting, but if the accounting at your nonprofit or public library is poorly managed, then QuickBooks alone won't help you. With appropriate training, support, and possibly a consultant, you can get your accounting on track and take full advantage of the possibilities of QuickBooks.

Adopting QuickBooks at your nonprofit or public library for the first time can be a challenge, particularly if your organization's accounting is in a state of disrepair. If you're currently using a spreadsheet or paper ledger to keep track of your nonprofit's finances, then moving to QuickBooks is a great excuse to assess and improve your accounting. That may take some time, energy, and money, but it can have a significant impact on your nonprofit's day-to-day processes. Clean accounting is the first step toward being able to measure, report on, and optimize your organization's performance.

In this short article, we've compiled several resources: some focused specifically on implementing and using QuickBooks in a nonprofit environment; others on best practices for nonprofit accounting in general.

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